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Ok, as i said. I had one baby that did not look so good at all when born. It still had a lot attached to it, and looked extremely dehydrated.
The first 2 pics show it once removed from the mums cage.
I immediately put it in a tiny container, with just a small dish of water, and watered down paper towel. With half of the container sitting right on the heat. The first 24hrs, i thought there wasnt a chance in hell it was going to survive, but after 36hrs the attached sack dropped off, and 48hrs gone, it was starting to flick its tongue.
Forget about morphs, this was the beauty of nature at its best.





Sorry some of the pictures arent the best, but i wasnt exactly trying to excel while taking them. Its weight ended up being 26grams, which suprised me a little, i was imagining, it to be a lot less

cheers
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Dave

15.24 brbs
4.8 crbs

Great Job on that little one, looking good.

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Zack Greens Reptiles

Glad to hear it's doing so well. From your description I didn't have a lot of hope for it.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count (02/01/2010):
42.61 BRB
27.40 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Dave,
...At that weight and with skin that was colored up but thin and wrinkly the snake was probably just a few days premature. The change you saw in it is probably a lot like the change in typical babies the last few days of gestation. These are amazing animals. Congratulations.
Jeff

The best thing about this baby, is that its all a learning curve. And without confronting issues like this, how would we learn
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Dave

15.24 brbs
4.8 crbs

Glad it pulled through for you Dave, how is s/he doing now?
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